Intermediality and the Circulation of Knowledge in the Eighteenth Century
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Beschreibung
Based on an international conference held in Saarbrücken in June 2017 that was attended by scholars from France, Germany, England and Ireland, the articles gathered in this volume constitute volume 6 of the LAPASEC series (Landau-Paris Studies on the Eighteenth Century). The essays represent the outstanding contributions to the symposium. Concerned with intermediality and the circulation of knowledge in the age of Enlightenment, the twelve pieces, divided into four sections, address aspects of theory, discursive intermediality, generic intermediality and the intermediality of objects. In doing so, they take cognizance of what is amiss in the field of intertextual/intermedial studies, i.e. the discussion of its relevance outside narratology as well as a true and interdisciplinary interest in the essentially rhizomatic nature of cultural representations (texts, images, musical pieces and material objects). The ensemble of articles also takes scholarly analysis beyond the dominating fields of literature and art by providing discussions of such neglected genres as travel literature, (para)medical writing and operatic performance. Instead of insisting on the generic separation of cultural representations, this collection demonstrates the advantages of interdisciplinary approaches while laying bare the fascinating if problematic construction of the aesthetics and ideologies shaping principles of cultural representation in the age of Enlightenment.
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Hans-Peter Wagner
Hans-Peter Wagner is professor emeritus of English and American literature at the Landau campus of Universität Koblenz-Landau. He taught at European, American, Asian and African universities and was appointed Distinguished Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College and Universität Paris-Diderot. He is the editor of several English novels in the Penguin English Classics series and co-editor of TESBA (Teaching English Studies for the Bachelor’s Degree), TESMA (Teaching English Studies for the Master’s Degree) and LAPASEC (Landau-Paris Studies on the Eighteenth Century) with WVT Trier. In his publications, he has covered colonial American culture, Enlightenment literature and art, postmodern American literature and, more recently, the graphic art of William Hogarth and intermediality. His most recent publications are A Survey of American Literature (TESBA vol. 2, 2017) and articles on Samuel Beckett’s usage of the art of Caspar David Friedrich in Waiting of Godot, and Herman Melville’s employment in Moby-Dick of paintings by J.L. David and William Turner.
Themen in »Intermediality and the Circulation of Knowledge in the Eighteenth Century«
Bartram, William Eighteenth Century Enlightenment Female Barrenness Knowledge Postmodern Graphic Novel The Beggar's Opera intermedial studies intermediality medical writing operatic performance travel literature